}
/*
- * Check a chunk is correct or not according to hardware ECC engine.
+ * Check if a chunk is correct or not according to the hardware ECC engine.
* mtd->ecc_stats.corrected is updated, as well as max_bitflips, however
* mtd->ecc_stats.failure is not, the function will instead return a non-zero
* value indicating that a check on the emptyness of the subpage must be
- * performed before declaring the subpage corrupted.
+ * performed before actually declaring the subpage as "corrupted".
*/
-static int marvell_nfc_hw_ecc_correct(struct nand_chip *chip,
- unsigned int *max_bitflips)
+static int marvell_nfc_hw_ecc_check_bitflips(struct nand_chip *chip,
+ unsigned int *max_bitflips)
{
struct mtd_info *mtd = nand_to_mtd(chip);
struct marvell_nfc *nfc = to_marvell_nfc(chip->controller);
marvell_nfc_enable_hw_ecc(chip);
marvell_nfc_hw_ecc_hmg_do_read_page(chip, buf, chip->oob_poi, false,
page);
- ret = marvell_nfc_hw_ecc_correct(chip, &max_bitflips);
+ ret = marvell_nfc_hw_ecc_check_bitflips(chip, &max_bitflips);
marvell_nfc_disable_hw_ecc(chip);
if (!ret)
/* Read the chunk and detect number of bitflips */
marvell_nfc_hw_ecc_bch_read_chunk(chip, chunk, data, data_len,
spare, spare_len, page);
- ret = marvell_nfc_hw_ecc_correct(chip, &max_bitflips);
+ ret = marvell_nfc_hw_ecc_check_bitflips(chip, &max_bitflips);
if (ret)
failure_mask |= BIT(chunk);
*/
/*
- * In case there is any subpage read error reported by ->correct(), we
- * usually re-read only ECC bytes in raw mode and check if the whole
- * page is empty. In this case, it is normal that the ECC check failed
- * and we just ignore the error.
+ * In case there is any subpage read error, we usually re-read only ECC
+ * bytes in raw mode and check if the whole page is empty. In this case,
+ * it is normal that the ECC check failed and we just ignore the error.
*
* However, it has been empirically observed that for some layouts (e.g
* 2k page, 8b strength per 512B chunk), the controller tries to correct